Quotes by : Jack Gilbert

I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that....

I would say Pittsburgh softly each time before throwing him up. Whisper Pittsburgh with my mouth against....

It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked....

Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music....

DuendeI can't remember her name.It's not as though I've been in bedwith that many women.The truth is....

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What....

I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me nowis a beginning or an end.

We are a singularity that makes music out of noise because we must hurry. We make a harvest of loneliness....

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.